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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:56:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        FREEBSD-PORTS-L <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   pkg_add/pkg_manage in 2.1.0-951026-SNAP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951029155325.232S-100000@flinch.io.org>

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    I tried adding a few packages today via "pkg_add -v", but I'm
getting a bogus "file not found" error.  pkg_manage is able to
retrieve the description of each package properly, but fails with the
same error when attempting to install.  Any ideas?


# ls -l
total 2594
-rw-rw-rw-  1 taob  bin        3 Oct 29 15:50 .1702.14db4
-rw-r--r--  1 root  bin   139565 Oct 29 15:49 dvips-5.58.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  bin  1130453 Oct 29 15:49 latex2e-95.06.tgz
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  bin      512 Oct 29 01:33 screens
-rw-r--r--  1 root  bin  1286518 Oct 29 15:49 tex-3.1415.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  bin    53518 Oct 29 15:49 xdvi-pl20.tgz

# pkg_add -v dvips-5.58.tgz
Requested space: 558260 bytes, free space: 117026816 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.003342
tar: can't open archive ./dvips-5.58.tgz : No such file or directory
tar: child returned status 3
tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive
Unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?
1 package addition(s) failed.

# tar -ztvf dvips-5.58.tgz +CONTENTS
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel      725 Oct 12 05:08 1995 +CONTENTS

--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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